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Workshops and Info Sessions

The Fellowships & Writing Center offers a range of workshops that aim to facilitate your professional development as a scholar.

The Fellowships & Writing Center (FWC) offers workshops throughout the year to facilitate your professional development as a scholar. Our workshops range from informational panels on fellowships and research to interactive sessions in which we work on targeted writing skills or discuss project management strategies. 

Workshops and other programming are announced on Engage, in the FWC newsletter On Grants and Prose, and in other Harvard Griffin GSAS communications.  

We also partner with the Academic Resource Center and the Mignone Center for Career Success to bring you events such as “What I Wish I Had Known about Summer for PhD Students.” 

See upcoming events below or visit the events calendar for more FWC events. 

In the Spotlight 

Balancing Teaching and Writing

Wednesday, November 6, noon–1:00 p.m. (Zoom)

Thursday, November 7, noon–1:00 p.m. (in person)

Graduate students need to find ways to make steady progress on research and writing alongside other professional responsibilities; for many, this means teaching. Sometimes these aspects of graduate school feel as if they are in tension. This doesn't have to be the case. Join us to learn how to think about the two as complementary, and learn techniques to make sure you get the most from both aspects of your professional training. Bring lunch if you'd like! 

Pre-Prepping for your PQE

Tuesday, November 12, 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (Zoom)

Wednesday, November 13, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (Zoom)

Congratulations, you finished your first year of graduate school! You joined a lab and are getting your project off the ground, but now your PQE is looming on the horizon. You're not ready to fully commit to prepping and writing, but you want to get the ball rolling. How can you lay the groundwork for your PQE before crunch time? This workshop will cover strategies to pre-prep for your PQE so you're more prepared when you start writing. 

Keep an eye out for more details on all our workshops in our biweekly newsletter, On Grants and Prose, as well as on the FWC page on Engage. (To view events, you must sign in to Engage.)

Upcoming Schedule

Writing and Generative AI (registration links to follow)

Wednesday, November 20, 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 21, 5:00 p.m. 

Past Workshops 

Other past workshops have included: 

  • Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program
  • Demystifying the Finish Line: A Dissertation Workshop 
  • Perspectives on Pitching and Publishing 
  • Writing the Prospectus 
  • Overcoming Writing Obstacles 
  • The Art of the Conference Presentation 
  • Establishing a Writing Practice 
  • Crafting Introductions and Conclusions
  • Strategies for Revising Academic Work
  • Research Statement Workshop 
  • Merit and Traveling Fellowships Information Session 
  • Fulbright US Student Program Information Session 
  • NSF GRFP Information Session 

You can find recordings of some of these workshops on the FWC Canvas site

Events Calendar